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Climate & Nature 2030: Accelerating Partnerships for Shared Growth
22 — 23 April 2024
ICC, Sydney
About iX Summit Sydney
The third Impact X Sydney Summit, Australia’s largest global summit for climate and nature, will address the urgent need for short-term action, calling on all stakeholders to raise ambition.
A collaborative two-day agenda will provide an opportunity for Australia and the Pacific region to demonstrate bold commitment to achieve 2030 goals and accelerated implementation on net zero, nature positive plans.
Impact X will focus directly to 2030 with speakers and participants bringing targets, implementation plans and commitments to invest.
Featured Speakers
Bezos Earth Fund
Bezos Earth Fund
Andrew joined the Bezos Earth Fund from the World Resources Institute, where he served as President & CEO for over eight years. Prior to this, he served as the World Bank’s Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2010 - 2012. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Director General at the UK Department of International Development. This followed 10 years in East Asia, where he was Head of the World Bank in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Dr. Steer is a Global Agenda Trustee for the World Economic Forum, a Commissioner of the Energy Transitions Commission, a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), co-chair of the Greening the Belt and Road Coalition, and board member of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet. He is also a member of the Advisory Committees of the Asian Development Bank and on the leadership council of Concordia.
Andrew was educated at St Andrews University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University. He has a PhD in international economics and finance.
Coles Group
Coles Group
Brooke has over 25 years’ experience working across sustainability, circular economy, recycling, product stewardship and stakeholder collaboration.
In her current role, Brooke leads the Coles teams to deliver on circular economy activities, climate and energy initiatives, sustainability reporting and engagement across all Coles businesses to support their ambitious goal to become Australia’s most sustainable supermarket.
During her career Brooke has been responsible for the strategic design and delivery of a range of strategic national and cross regional initiatives such as the Product Stewardship Cluster, the 2025 National Packaging Targets, the Australasian Recycling Label and the ANZPAC Plastics Pact.
Brooke has worked across a diverse range of recycling, product stewardship and sustainability organisations such as, APCO, Visy Industrial Packaging, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, and ANZRP.
First Nations Clean Energy Network
Beyond Zero Emissions
Beyond Zero Emissions
Heidi Lee is an architect and expert in sustainable buildings and urban design with 20 years of experience in creating sustainable cities. After a decade of leadership and advisory roles with Beyond Zero Emissions, Heidi became CEO in 2020. Heidi led Beyond Zero Emissions’ much-lauded, post-covid Million Jobs Plan that showed how renewables and low-emissions projects can deliver 1.8 million new jobs in just five years.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Johan Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues. He led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.
In addition to his research endeavours, which has been widely used to guide policy, Rockström is active as a consultant for several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at international meetings including the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Professor Rockström chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League and has been appointed as chair of the Earth Commission.
National Reconstruction Fund
National Reconstruction Fund
Martjin Wilder AM has over 20 years’ experience as a leader in sustainable finance and climate change policy. He is the Founder and CEO of Pollination and has previously held numerous high-profile positions including Chair of the Board of Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Founding Director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Director of the Climate Council, Chair of Low Carbon Australia Ltd, Chair of WWF (Australia). He is currently Chair and Governing Board Member of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (Vienna).
DFAT
DFAT
Kristin Tilley is Australia’s Ambassador for Climate Change and plays a leading role in Australia’s international climate diplomacy, with a focus on engaging with the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
Prior to taking up this appointment in November 2022, Kristin held several senior positions in the Australian Government, including as head of the Office of Supply Chain Resilience in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and leading the Government’s work on waste and recycling, including designing and implementing Australia’s ban the export of waste. Prior to this, Kristin spent more than a decade working on international and domestic climate change policies and programs, including as a senior adviser to Australia’s Climate Change Minister.
Climate Action Network Australia
CSIRO
CSIRO
Michael Battaglia is mission Lead for Towards net zero mission which looks to build capability to assist Australia's transition to net zero with particular focus on hard to abate sectors (Steel, Agriculture and Transport), regional economies and scaling negative emission technologies. Dr Battaglia was an advisor to the LETs soil carbon area, has held governance on multiple international and international collaborations include the $400M CGIAR Dryland Cereals and Legumes Program, the DFAT Australia-Vietnam Innovation collaboration, and multiple national programs on carbon accounting and mitigation of emissions from agriculture. He received the IUFRO global science excellence prize for contributions to forest systems modelling and carried out the first Australian assessments of our plantation estate vulnerability to climate change. He was a founder and a Board Director for FutureFeed, a company that is commercializing anti-methanogenic seaweed to tackle livestock emissions. I am a recipient of the US$1M Jens Bergfor Global Food Prize, AFR sustainability award winner and a Finalist in the Australian Museum Eureka Applied Environmental Award.
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices, and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His work includes founding successful, ecologically conscious businesses, writing about the impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Paul is Founder of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. The organization maps and models the scaling of one hundred substantive technological, social, and ecological solutions to global warming.
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards and Disaster Management. He has previously served as Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and as Foreign Minister, and is currently serving his fifth term as the Member of Parliament for Vanuatu’s capital city – which is also Vanuatu’s largest urban centre - Port Vila. From 2013 until 2015, Ralph was co-chair of the taskforce which was responsible for developing Vanuatu’s ‘National Sustainable Development Plan 2016-2030’. He is currently the Pacific Ministerial Champion for Loss and Damage.
Gaimaragal Group
Gaimaragal Group
The Gaimaragal Group’s founding director is Susan Moylan-Coombs. The company was established to create a new story of connection and wellbeing for all Australians.
Our aim is to facilitate the voice for our Elders in the contemporary social space, empower our youth to realise their full potential, and provide two-way cultural translation to bring individuals and communities together.
Susan’s ancestry is Woolwonga and Gurindji from the Northern Territory. She has extensive experience working with First Australian communities nationally and internationally, with specific expertise in community consultation, empowerment and the facilitation of voice and storytelling. Susan previously held the positions of Executive Producer ABC’s Indigenous Programs Unit and Head of Production, NITV a division of SBS.
Today, Susan uses her expertise to work with mainstream organisations and communities in the provision of cultural competency and immersion sessions as well as social planning processes. Susan is part of the group known as the Stolen Generations and has lived experience of the trauma associated with removal, loss, dispossession and disconnection.
What you can expect
Who attends?
A multi-stakeholder summit where leaders from government, business, science, and technology will come together to drive unprecedented collaboration in climate action.
As the voice of international business interests, throughout Australia and the US in particular, American Chamber of Commerce in Australia's (AmCham Australia) story has always revolved around its members, and our ability to provide them with invaluable access to opportunity.
It’s a story of connectivity. Our members include CEOs, executives and professionals of all ages, and from all walks of business. Our strong and supportive network provides them with up-to-date information, unparalleled access to opportunities, a robust business events program, a diverse membership database, and a voice to potentially shape Government policy.
It’s also a story based around quality global participation: we actively promote international business with trade missions, including the highly regarded Offshore Technology Conference.
And our story is one of generosity: we work with the U.S. Commercial Service and Austrade to welcome and host inbound business missions. With over 100 AmChams located worldwide – including 21 countries in the Asia-Pacific region alone – AmCham is one of the best B2B networks in Australia and overseas.
And it’s our members who make it; we simply provide the networks, the opportunities and the support for you to do what you do best.
We're Australia's national science agency. At CSIRO, we solve the greatest challenges using innovative science and technology. We’ve advanced Australia with a range of inventions and innovations that have had significant positive impact on the lives of people around the world. Our Towards Net Zero mission is supporting Australia’s hard-to-abate sectors like steel, aviation and agriculture, to halve their emissions by 2035. We are Australia’s most trusted research institution and most connected innovator, working with universities, governments, Australian businesses of all sizes across all major industries, and communities around the country.
GreenCollar was founded in 2011 as a conservation-driven profit-for-purpose organisation, and is now the leading environmental markets project developer and investor in Australia across the carbon, water quality, biodiversity and plastics markets. GreenCollar works with landowners and managers throughout Australia to develop projects that create commercial opportunities by generating environmental credits, while caring for the environment. GreenCollar’s management team was fundamental in helping to establish Australia’s carbon market framework, as well as Queensland’s Reef Credit program, and are widely recognised as thought leaders in the carbon and biodiversity markets industry.
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm. For nearly 100 years, we have been a trusted advisor to C-suites, government bodies, and nonprofit organizations. Our people make us who we are. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we work alongside our clients to regenerate their businesses to create a future that works for everyone.
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organisation to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure’s commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide through its environmental sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint. And with the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.
Together with our partners, team members and investors, we’re making regenerative agriculture accessible to more farmers and acres around the world. That’s why we’ve been named one of TIME’s Top 100 Influential Companies for 2023 and one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2023 — and why our work won’t stop until we’ve fulfilled our mission.
Third Hemisphere is a specialist climate, tech, and finance PR and marketing agency for innovators and leaders who are breaking new ground, and changing the world for the better.
We help our clients lead the conversation to create impact and become category leaders, through strategic and integrated communications across tier-1 news media, social, and digital channels. This drives commercial outcomes with their investors, customers, partners, talent, and governments.
Our experience and influence is broad and deep across investment and capital markets, sustainability and ESG, deep tech, fintech, and the climate transition. Our team is composed of tier-1 media writers, technical and science writers, venture investors, business builders, former journalists, TV producers, and marketing experts.
We invest in our clients and build sustainable value from Seed to IPO and beyond.
ANZ’s Purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. This Purpose underpins all we do with our customers, employees, shareholders, the communities in which we operate and other stakeholders.
As an institution on its own journey to net zero, we understand the opportunities and can offer sustainable financing to support your energy transition plans. We operate in close to 30 countries globally, with an on-the-ground presence in more than 10 markets across Asia.
ANZ is committed to funding and facilitating at least A$100 billion by the end of 2030 towards improving social and environmental outcomes for our customers. The bank is actively working to encourage and support 100 of its highest-emitting business customers to identify their climate change risks, create transition plans and report publicly on their progress.
We are proud to have been voted the Best Bank for ESG and Sustainable Finance* and we are dedicated to ensuring that environmental sustainability is at the centre of our strategies, planning and decisions.
*No.1 Market Leader in ESG & Sustainable Finance and No.1 for Advice and Insights for ESG & Sustainable Finance in Peter Lee Associates Large Corporate & Institutional Relationship Banking surveys, Australia 2023
AXA Climate is a subsidiary of AXA Group, the global Re/Insurance company headquartered in Paris, France. AXA Climate's mission is to provide science-based tools and resources to organizations to accelerate their sustainability transition - with consulting, training, insurance, and financing solutions.
Starting in 2019, AXA Climate invested heavily in developing a library of sustainability content for its 150,000 employees worldwide. Later, in 2021, it came out with its offering Climate School, which helps organizations to engage and upskill their workforce on environmental and social issues. The content is:
- White-labelled so that employees see only their organization's branding
- Tailored for specific roles: Marketing, HR, Procurement, etc.
- Available in 10+ languages and easily integrated with any LMS
- 100% digital and customizable for self-paced learning
Today, more than 4 million employees from 130+ global brands have access to the Climate School.
Climate Friendly’s driving purpose is to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions through carbon farming and nature repair.
To achieve this Climate Friendly is partnering with land managers, Traditional Owners, and environmental organisations on 160+ carbon farming projects across Australia. We’ve already stored 30M tonnes of carbon across 10 million hectares and our goal is to store 150 million tonnes in the landscape through the lifecycles of projects we will establish by 2025.
Our vision is for a productive, sustainable land sector that makes a significant contribution to a zero.
Conservation Volunteers Australia is the environmental organisation that gets things done for communities and ecosystems. If you want to help nature but don’t know where to start, talk to us. For 40 years, volunteers have been protecting and restoring the places, plants and incredible wildlife that make Australia so unique. Now, anyone across Australia can take action for nature with CVA. Whether you’re a researcher with a great idea, want to help fund our work or lend your time to volunteer, please get in touch.
FLINTpro is a leading nature analytics platform that empowers you to transform the vast trove of land management data into credible insights and confident decision-making.
With our platform’s granular-level models and insights, you can dissect, customise, audit and re-evaluate every aspect of your assets down to the pixel-level. This allows you to build complete analyses that can reveal the intricacies of a specific region and comprehend its broader global implications.
By seamlessly integrating the rigor of hard science with collaborative partnerships, we are building a future where every risk is managed, every impact is measured, and every opportunity is identified—ensuring a sustainable world for all.
GHD recognises and understands the world is constantly changing. We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.
We are a global professional services company that leads through engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Our forward-looking, innovative approaches connect and sustain communities around the world. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are focused on building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.
Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 11,000+ diverse and skilled individuals connected by over 160+ offices, across five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region.
Find out more about us at ghd.com
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With approximately $16 billion in annual revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.
We exist to provide our clients with an evidence base for sustainability decisions. As LCA specialists, our mission is to consult, teach and empower clients as we transition to a circular economy. Everything we do is underpinned by honesty, transparency and collaboration. We believe this collaborative approach is critical to stem the tide and create a sustainable future.
LMS Energy is Australia’s largest and most experienced landfill biogas company. The recovery of landfill biogas reduces methane missions and provides a reliable source of renewable energy. Each year, LMS’ projects reduce over 4 million tonnes of greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere, making LMS one of Australia’s largest emissions reducers. LMS has successfully delivered more landfill biogas projects than any other Australian company and are highly recognised as innovators in this industry.
Polestar (Nasdaq: PSNY) is the Swedish electric performance car brand determined to improve society by accelerating the shift to sustainable, electric mobility. As a young brand, Polestar is legacy free, which allows the company to challenge old notions, lead with transparency and embrace the power of exponential technology. Together with design and technology, sustainability is one of the three pillars that form the foundation of Polestar. The company plans to create a truly climate-neutral production car, without offsetting, by 2030. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Polestar’s vehicles are available online in 27 markets globally across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Reforest is an Australian startup with a software platform that enables businesses and events to take authentic climate and nature positive action, and deliver that impact as engaging and personalised campaigns for customers, attendees, and staff. We create tailored programs for our clients that integrate localised, high-quality ecosystem restoration for carbon removal and biodiversity protection into any stakeholder touch point. Together we are creating an economy in which every product and service helps restore the planet.
S1T2 stands for Story First, Technology Second. We are experience design studio built on the belief that technology has the power to revolutionise the way we tell and experience stories. We’re dedicated to using interactive technologies to create experiences that realise the future of storytelling: a future where you can explore any world through your own story. Over the years, we have had the privilege of collaborating with ambitious teams at brands, cultural institutions, government organisations and NGOs across the globe. This work has taken us from our home in Australia, to our neighbours in Asia and the Pacific Islands, and as far abroad as the Middle East and United States.
Our purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, endpoint to cloud connecting products, controls, software, and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure, and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive, and Empowered values.
Sircel is an Australian green-technology company addressing one of the world’s fastest-growing environmental problems with a world-leading proprietary system that enables up to 100% diversion of e-waste from landfill. The electronic devices that run our lives today will no longer be thrown “away”, collected in cupboards, forgotten in storerooms, shipped to t up to 60 tonnes of e-waste a day. Once e-waste is within our system, we can recycle up to 100% of the individual commodities and redirect those commodities back into the circular economy.
We are a major provider of electricity and energy solutions to the Queensland component of the National Electricity Market and large energy users throughout Australia.
We are creating a new, lower carbon generation portfolio that is complemented by firming solutions, we are driving the development of a renewable hydrogen industry in Central Queensland, and we are providing an essential service by powering the State.
Our current portfolio includes new wind and solar farm projects, in which Stanwell has either an equity interest or an offtake agreement, and two battery storage projects which are under development. We have more than 3,000 MW of renewable generation projects and firming capacity either under operation, under construction or under development in the regions surrounding our Stanwell and Tarong power stations.
Terrascope is an enterprise grade, end to end, smart carbon measurement and management SaaS platform. By combining data science, machine learning and sustainability expertise, Terrascope provides the data, analytics and digital tools to help large companies to decarbonise their business operations and supply chains. Publicly launched in June ’22, Terrascope has worked with customers in multiple sectors from Agriculture, Food and Beverages, Industrial manufacturing, to Luxury, Transportation and Public Sector, all over the world. Terrascope is backed by Nupo Ventures, formerly called Olam Ventures, built in partnership with BCG Digital Ventures, and supported by Singapore’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce’s (Sustainability Alliance for Action). Terrascope is globally headquartered in Singapore, and is a key partner of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s ESG Impact Hub.
Sustainability, ESG, Carbon Neutral - are terms that are putting Companies under increased pressure from regulators, investors, and consumers to progress toward more sustainable and socially responsible business operations and to demonstrate these measures in a robust and verifiable way.
However, companies most often do not know where to start let alone understand their current position - Archisage can help!! As an experienced software implementation company, we can help customers through their ESG minefield:
- Can provide training on Carbon Account (ESG), Net Zero and Carbon Management
- Will undertake and deliver a Carbon Strategy for your organization.
- Implementation Services for Envizi - a one stop carbon accounting and management package.
- Customized dashboards and reporting using Power BI and Envizi PowerReports
IBM’s Envizi software solution provides companies with a single source of truth for analysing and understanding emissions data across the full landscape of their business operations and more importantly be able to report the current position to their respective organisations regulatory reporting.
WorkbenchX is a supply chain platform for the circular economy that closes the loop for industrial components. WorkbenchX’s innovative network platform bridges the gap between original equipment manufacturers, equipment users, and service providers to build a circular industrial economy. Its primary goal is to make it easy to identify and execute the highest-value circular loop of repair, refurbishment, remanufacture, and recycling, thereby retaining maximum financial value and minimizing the wastage of embodied energy.
Wollemi Capital™ is a global climate specialist investment firm.
Transforming the world’s economy to meet the demands of our changing climate is the most urgent technological, financial and human challenge of our lifetime. It requires investment of unprecedented size, on a global scale, at breakneck speed.
Wollemi Capital was established in 2021 specifically to address this need. We believe that the custodianship of the environment is key to a thriving future – one in which astute deployment of capital will drive even greater outcomes for our planet, partners and investors.
Wollemi’s team combines a world-class track record of investing in and operating infrastructure and technology that is advancing the climate transition, with experience bridging emerging solutions to corporate demand – underpinned by deep specialist sector expertise and a creative, flexible and patient approach to capital.
Headquartered in Sydney and with ~30 staff across Australia and the United States, we invest in the businesses and projects creating the next wave of solutions to accelerate global decarbonisation. Our investments include leading nature-based carbon credit platform Pachama, Australian agtech success story and microbial pioneer Loam Bio, North American industrial decarbonisation and waste-to-energy specialist Kanin Energy, and a growing portfolio of high-integrity carbon projects across Australia.
Responsible Wood is a not-for-profit accredited standards development organisation, licenced by Standards Australia to develop standards. Responsible Wood also operates the Responsible Wood certification scheme, which demonstrates that products produced under those standards are sourced from sustainably managed forests. Responsible Wood is endorsed by, and mutually recognised by, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), the world’s largest forest certification scheme. To achieve endorsement, the Responsible Wood certification scheme is subject to rigorous assessment by PEFC to confirm it was developed in line with international best practice, meets global expectations and the PEFC International benchmark sustainability standards. The Responsible Wood certification scheme, covers almost 20 million hectares of forest in Australia, making Responsible Wood Australia’s largest forest certification scheme.
Acknowledgement of Country
We respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise their rich cultures and connections to land, sea and community. Together, we commit to building a sustainable future together.
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